Healing Water for the Soul
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Healing Water for the Soul

Selections from Streams in the Desert and Springs in the Valley (A 365-Day Devotional)

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Healing Water for the Soul

Selections from Streams in the Desert and Springs in the Valley (A 365-Day Devotional)

About this book

Find hope and healing when your heart feels heavy and burdened.

Life is full of difficult seasons of loss, grief, and hardship. To overcome the struggles and pain, we must find reassurance, guidance, and wisdom from God. Healing Water for the Soul is a yearlong compilation of life-changing devotionals from L. B. Cowman's classics Streams in the Desert and Springs in the Valley. Each day you will find encouragement from God's Word that speaks to God's purpose, plan, and promise to you.

In Healing Water for the Soul, you will find 365 devotions taken from L. B. Cowman's classic devotional books that appeal to men and women of all ages to bring hope and comfort. This inspiring book of daily devotions can be read as a yearlong daily devotional or as a 6-month morning and evening devotional and contains a powerful collection of meditations, Christian writings, and Bible passages.

Healing Water for the Soul will encourage you to:

  • Identify opportunities for hope and renewal in your life
  • Accept and appreciate God's timeless messages of faithfulness
  • Develop a strong prayer life
  • Discover how you can grow as you meditate on the truths and wisdom in God's Word

 

With a gorgeous modern cover, Healing Water for the Soul is a great gift for:

  • Birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day, graduations, Christmas, New Year's, and other holiday gifting.
  • Teacher Appreciation Day, Grandparent's Day, and Pastor's Appreciation Day.
  • A friend or family member coping with grief, growing their relationship with God, or going through a difficult time.

 

Healing Water for the Soul is a yearlong devotional that can help you or a loved one overcome challenging times and renew your hope and faith.

Information

Publisher
Zondervan
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9780310365174
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religion

DAY 1

Pray continually.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:17
Is it hypocritical to pray when we don’t feel like it?
Perhaps there is no more subtle hindrance to prayer than that of our moods. Nearly everybody has to meet that difficulty at times. Even God’s prophets were not wholly free from it. Habakkuk felt as if he were facing a blank wall for a long time. What shall we do when moods like this come to us? Wait until we do feel like praying? It is easy to persuade ourselves that it is hypocrisy to pray when we do not feel like it; but we don’t argue that way about other things in life. If you were in a room that had been tightly closed for some time you would, sooner or later, begin to feel very miserable—so miserable, perhaps, that you would not want to make the effort to open the windows, especially if they were difficult to open. But your weakness and listlessness would be proof that you were beginning to need fresh air very desperately—that you would soon be ill without it.
If the soul perseveres in a life of prayer, there will come a time when these seasons of dryness will pass away and the soul will be led out, as David says, “into a spacious place” (Ps. 18:19). Let nothing discourage you. If the soil is dry, keep cultivating it. It is said, that in a dry time this harrowing of the corn is equal to a shower of rain.
When we are listless about prayer it is the very time when we need most to pray. The only way we can overcome listlessness in anything is to put more of ourselves, not less, into the task. To pray when you do not feel like praying is not hypocrisy—it is faithfulness to the greatest duty of life. Just tell the Father that you don’t feel like it—ask Him to show you what is making you listless. He will help us to overcome our moods, and give us courage to persevere in spite of them.
“When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.”
If I feel myself disinclined to pray, then is the time when I need to pray more than ever. Possibly when the soul leaps and exults in communion with God it might more safely refrain from prayer than at those seasons when it drags heavily in devotion. CHARLES H. SPURGEON

DAY 2

He said, “This is the resting place, let the weary rest”; and, “This is the place of repose”—but they would not listen.
ISAIAH 28:12
Why do you worry? What possible use does your worrying serve? You are aboard such a large ship that you would be unable to steer even if your Captain placed you at the helm. You would not even be able to adjust the sails, yet you worry as if you were the captain or the helmsman of the vessel. Be quiet, dear soul—God is the Master!
Do you think all the commotion and the uproar of this life is evidence that God has left His throne? He has not! His mighty steeds rush furiously ahead, and His chariots are the storms themselves. But the horses have bridles, and it is God who holds the reins, guiding the chariots as He wills!
Our God Jehovah is still the Master! Believe this and you will have peace. “Don’t be afraid” (Matt. 14:27).

Tonight, my soul, be still and sleep;
The storms are raging on God’s deep—
God’s deep, not yours; be still and sleep.
Tonight, my soul, be still and sleep;
God’s hands will still the Tempter’s sweep—
God’s hands, not yours; be still and sleep.
Tonight, my soul, be still and sleep;
God’s love is strong while night hours creep—
God’s love, not yours; be still and sleep.
Tonight, my soul, be still and sleep;
God’s heaven will comfort those who weep—
God’s heaven, not yours; be still and sleep.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON
I implore you to not give in to despair. It is a dangerous temptation, because our Adversary has refined it to the point that it is quite subtle. Hopelessness constricts and withers the heart, rendering it unable to sense God’s blessings and grace. It also causes you to exaggerate the adversities of life and makes your burdens seem too heavy for you to bear. Yet God’s plans for you, and His ways of bringing about His plans, are infinitely wise. MADAME GUYON

DAY 3

Cast all your anxiety on him.
1 PETER 5:7
Who among us has not occasionally experienced anxiety? And yet the Bible clearly prohibits it, and as clearly provides an unfailing remedy: “Blessed is the man who trusteth in Jehovah, and whose confidence Jehovah is; for he shall be like a tree . . . which stretcheth forth its roots by the water course, so that it shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be verdant; which is not uneasy in the year of drought.” SPURRELL
Not uneasy! Not uneasy in the year of drought—in a time of spiritual darkness. Not uneasy about spiritual supplies; not uneasy concerning temporal supplies—food or raiment; not uneasy concerning our lip witness—how, or what to say. Then what is there left about which we may be anxious? Nothing. For the Lord went on to say, “Why do you worry about the rest?” (Luke 12:26). And Paul further says, “Do not be anxious about anything” (Phil. 4:6) or “In nothing be anxious.” And again, Peter says, “Do not begin to be anxious.”
Anxiety is therefore prohibited in the Bible. But how is it to be prevented? By hurling all your care or worry upon Him, because with Him there is care about you.
Blessed is the man who is not uneasy! APHRA WHITE

DAY 4

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed. . . . Without weakening in his faith.
ROMANS 4:18–19
I will never forget the statement which that great man of faith George Mueller once made to a gentleman who had asked him the best way to have strong faith: “The only way to know strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm through severe testings.”
How true this is! You must trust when all else fails.
Dear soul, you may scarcely realize the value of your present situation. If you are enduring great afflictions right now, you are at the source of the strongest faith. God will teach you during these dark hours to have the most powerful bond to His throne you could ever know, if you will only submit. “Don’t be afraid; just believe” (Mark 5:36). But if you ever are afraid, simply look up and say, “When I am afraid, I will trust in You” (Ps. 56:3). Then you will be able to thank God for His school of sorrow that became for you the school of faith. A. B. SIMPSON
Great faith must first endure great trials.
God’s greatest gifts come through great pain. Can we find anything of value in the spiritual or the natural realm that has come about without tremendous toil and tears? Has there ever been any great reform, any discovery benefiting humankind, or any soul-awakening revival, without the diligence and the shedding of blood of those whose suff...

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  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. CONTENTS
  5. A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
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